The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-10-08
MIR. WALLIS ON THE STUMP.

| Hon. S. Teackle Wallis, in his speech at the
| Independent Democratic mass meeting in Baltl-
more on Friday night of last week. said: al thank
you for the evidence you give of your zeal in this
cause. I speak not afectedly, because cannot
help feeling that 1 have reached that period OF
life when this sort of occupation is beyond me-.
Yet not only because I have joined my voice in
soliciting the gentlemen to accept the nominations
of the Republican party, but because 1T is not in
my nature to keep quiet under such circumstan-
ces, am now speaking. have no apology to
make. When 1 Joined the Democratic party be-
cause it represented certain principles, and when
those principles are lacking, am not with it,
am not its chattel. My days of involuntary SER
vitude are over. Can't choose to give my vote
for good men Of any party representing principles
without being, as The Sun says, banded traitor 7
The worst crime man can commit is treason to
his conscience and to the institutions of his coun
try. Even did not respect the Republican can
didates could resort to the device of picking up
any stick to kill the wolf. think if can stand
it German can. These old war horses who stood
in their stalls and were well fed, can't they stand
it and they tell us that / am becoming traitor.
desire not to injure the Democratic party but to
save it. | admire its principles, and 60 to its
assistance as would go to the aid of friend who
had fallen among thieves. For these people, who
think it is an aectation to tell the TRUTH to tell
me to vote the ticket which they put up, upon
such thing spit and 1 spurn it. 1 don't see
why the Democratic party is not the Democratic
party after it has been cleansed. A mans face is
the same face after it has been washed. If the
ring own the Democratic party I am not mem
Der it. As don't wish to go out of the house
hold, shall try to put them (the interopers) out.
My friend, Mr.. Whyte, at Towsontown, turned
straight away from the real question of this con-
test, and said that the issue was whether or not
we should defeat Grover Cleveland in 1888. Who
is assailing Grover Cleveland? I expect to vote
for him. But / should vote for him with better
heart had he not been befoued by Gormanism.
I don't know a Democrat in the State who has
ever felt i'll of Grover Cleveland except in his con-
nection with Gormanism. The objection is that
he has linked his honored name with the prostitu
| ton of politics of Maryland. All Cleveland has
| to do is to throw off his vestments and cleanse
| himself of Gormanism. When he stands upon his
| professed support of the ring he stands upon an
unstable support. They would sell him if it was
necessary. If they could not sell him they would
wreck him. The issue is clean ballot-box and
fair count. If the ring gives them to us the ring
| will die. They live by fraud and falsehood and
as soon they lose their forces they disappear,
| the seventeen-year locusts, after much devasta-
| ton, into the ground. care for nothing ese in
| this canvass but free ballot-box and honest
count. The party that gives US them is my party.
| The man who pours oil into the wounds, he is my
| good Samaritan. Are we idiots, or have ordi-
nary intelligence? Talk about the sincerity of a
| party that brings out platform like that Are
| you to 'gape siller and swallow They start to
humbug the people. Those who know that if the
laws were properly enforced they would perhaps
suffice, announce that there is need for achange
account of their antiquity. Imagine a law pre-
pared, in the preparation of which MIR. CHAR s j.
NJ. Gwinn had any participation, submitted to a
ring Legislature for the publication of the ballot
He has been Germans lawmaker for twenty ears,
and every law that he makes is so full of snakes
that it would take st. Patrick on the commit ee to
keep them out. The Maryland Institute meeting
| appointed committee to draw up law to RENE
! dy the evils, and nothing came oft. Our proverb
| says: 'The cat that has once been scalded runs
away from cold water When they appointed
committee to draw such law the Legislature
pitched it out. In the name of common decency
| how can they expect man to accept committee
| with Mr.. Gwinn as a member 1t is the same
| beggar with the same wallet What have done
| that any one should think was ass enough to
cept it. When look at this concern today and
| see Ferdinand Latrobe and Pinkney Whyte on the
same ticket, seem to be reviving the traditions
| of my childhood. In the name of Heaven, haven
they anybody else? They haven't got anybody
else. When Mr.. German has to go to Mr.. Whyte
and ask him to bury the hatchet-and burying the
Ratchet means digging up half a dozen axes to
| grind-they are in their necessities"